Philip Reari (pen name for Ari Phillips) is a Washington, D.C.-based writer and editor working to reduce industrial pollution, raise environmental awareness, and write fiction. Previously a climate reporter, his work has been published by Dissent, Grist, Huffington Post, Kyoto Journal, Mother Jones, n+1, Wired, and many others.

He grew up in State College, PA, and Santa Fe, NM, and went to school in Santa Barbara, CA, and Austin, TX, before settling in D.C. Along the way he was a fellow at Tara Books in Chennai, India, for nine months and received journalism grants to report in-depth environmental stories in the Western U.S. and Australia and New Zealand.